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Well fuck a duck, I wish you weren’t right on this one.

That's how Matt Gaetz says it works....

Occasionally I'll pop over to Foxnews.com to try to balance out my news consumption. The most racist, sexist hate speech I've ever come across has been in the Fox News comments section.

I’ve only made it to season 3 in the Biden fan-fiction so far so I may be wrong, but I believe the current plot has it that Joe is too senile to run the show himself, and so at any time his handlers may decide to take the power away from their puppet and give it to (competent but evil) Kamala because CONSPIRACY!!!!!

Rose!?!?!? The song is clearly about tulips

Come on Phil, you're just trying to distract us from Biden's plan to cap my beef limit to 4lb/year!

Hell this week Tucker Carlson encouraged his viewers to ‘confront’ people who were wearing masks outside. I almost think he’s goading sponsors to jump ship so he can decry the cancel culture!

So police violence against people of color should be swept under the rug because one attention whore tried to pull some really stupid shit to bring himself back into the spotlight?

And the far-right outrage of the morning is condemning LeBron James for 'inciting violence against a cop'. Jesus, anything to distract and declare a new boogey-man! Maybe in this specific case the shooting was justified, but taking history into account James reached a pretty reasonable conclusion and used his platform to voice a fucking justified frustration.

As always, well stated Joe.

To be fair, it's a pretty safe bet for airdvr. If Chauvin dies of a heart attack 2 days before release, airdvr gets to come here and scream how he was right. If Chauvin walks out of prison at a brisk 82 years of age, who is going to come back to this thread and make airdvr eat crow?

Where did that number come from?

The MAGA folk will write him off as a RINO faster than you can say 'Decider'

Did the Good Book not teach him that Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour's Pool Boy?

Occasionally I see a BH quote and am reminded why I blocked him. Thanks for reminding me why it’s best to ignore his ridiculous bullshtuff Joe

You do realize that COVID happened to come along at a time when people were able capitalize on years and years of research into mRNA vaccines, right?

If you hadn’t figured that out before now, I’d say you just weren’t paying attention

Touché, but one is a victimless crime.

Your point is well taken, and in general I'm not a fan of the "the solution isn't perfect so it's not worth trying" argument that's frequently thrown around in arguments such as opposition to gun control. I think the anti-vaxxers would be just as motivated (or possibly even more-so) to fake a passport than to get vaccinated, but a passport requirement pre-travel would likely push a lot of people who were just hesitant/unmotivated to seek out the jab.

In theory I think it'd be a good idea: I'd love to provide proof of vaccination and be able to enter Canada to visit my ailing mother without having to hotel it for 2 weeks as soon as I got across the border. In practicality I think the vaccination rollout hasn't been done in a way where a passport feasible at this point. For example, I got my first shot last week. I'd registered online, showed up at a hospital and wasn't asked once for proof of insurance or ID before I got the jab. The only record I have right now is the card they gave me with the appointment for shot #2 and the only identifying information on that is what I filled out myself. Based on that process, it strikes me that anybody who wanted to fake a vaccine passport to travel (and where I work in rural TX that's a conversation I hear at least once a week, in addition to comments like "I just don't know what's in that vaccine") would be able to do it so easily that it would defeat the purpose of the passport. I can't imagine the rollout being any different when they're trying to vaccinate 100's of millions of people ASAP, and I'm impressed with how smooth it has been, but seeing where we're at today I think the ship has sailed on any reliable, traceable passport.

Crikey!

And the sad, unsurprising quote near the end of the story:

Yeah, the Deep State goes so deep that even when a Trump lackey was running the CDC they didn't sound the word about the miraculous benefits of Hydroxychloroquine. I'm sure that your rural GA mountain doctors are all over it though.

Yesterday afternoon I was in one of our manufacturing facilities and I heard a cheer arise from the floor. It was the announcement that "we don't have to wear these fucking masks anymore" I'm a tad bit worried